How important is having a firewall? Is there a good free firewall on the Net, or should I buy a firewall from Earthlink? Thanks for your help. - Louise Very important. A good firewall will make your ...

If you are considering high-speed Internet access such as a cable modem or digital subscriber line, you should also get serious about protecting the information on your computer by looking at a ...

Bill Cheswick will deny that he invented computer firewalls, but it’s what the modest computer security researcher is really known for. He literally wrote the book on it in 1994. Chesiwck partnered ...

If your computer is connected to the Internet, it is vulnerable to attack. There are tens of thousands of viruses and worms in circulation, and hackers are finding new ways to exploit computer ...

(CNN) — An outage that shut down the 911 system in Massachusetts for two hours on Tuesday was caused by a computer firewall and not due to a cyberattack or hack, a preliminary investigation has ...

The federal government has accused a Chinese hacker — whose company is a Chinese intelligence-linked contractor — as part of an effort in April 2020 to exploit weaknesses in computer firewalls used by ...

Cisco warned customers today to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited in attacks and impact the company's firewall software.

You would be ok using Red Hat with an old Pentium with about 32MB of RAM but if you want 486 you'll have to create a custom kernel (or use an older version). I don't ...